With the help of a Super Bowl champion, the NFL is stepping up efforts to recruit players from Africa and to expand its audience on the continent. NBC News’ Zinhle Essamuah spoke with one NFL prospect now on a football scholarship in the U.S. source

A study from “Lean In” and “McKinsey & Company” surveyed nearly half a million women across 1,000 companies, revealing significant challenges for women in corporate America. Data shared exclusively with NBC News shows that senior-level women are nearly twice as likely to experience burnout as their male counterparts.source

Protests erupted in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem in response to news that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had fired his defense minister, Yoav Gallant.source

A small jet crashed into a vehicle Tuesday after taking off from a suburban Phoenix airport, killing five people, police said.source

Democratic Rep. Andy Kim has defeated challenger Curtis Bashaw after a historic New Jersey Senate race. The win makes Kim the state’s first Asian American senator.source

Democrat Angela Alsobrooks has won Maryland’s Senate race, NBC News projects, defeating popular former Republican Gov.source

Delaware state Sen. Sarah McBride won the state’s only House seat Tuesday, NBC News projects, making her the first openly transgender person elected to Congress.source

Democratic Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester will become the first Black woman to represent Delaware in the Senate after she defeated Republican Eric Hansen and independent candidate Mike Katz, NBC News projects.source

Moo Deng is the beloved baby pygmy hippo from Thailand who went viral for her cuteness. Now there’s a new hippo in town named Haggis. The Edinburgh Zoo introduced the little one to social media and instantly won over hearts across the internet.source